World of Warcraft Patched to 2.4.2 - Class Changes, Mac Fixes

Blizzard patched World of Warcraft to version 2.4.2 Tuesday, a patch that carries several changes for all of the player classes, as well as crafting changes and some Mac-specific bug fixes. In addition, there is an assortment of changes to most of the crafting professions, as well as quest, instance, and item changes. Most of these changes are bug fixes or corrections.

The Mac patch is a 15MB download, which can be accessed either through the WoW launcher, or by logging directly into your WoW client.

As we usually get requests to post the full patch notes, they are included below, in full.

World of Warcraft Client Patch 2.4.2

Mac

Fixed a bug causing ATI kernel panics; all spell effects should now be visible.

Weather effects are again visible on systems with ATI 2x00 graphics such as aluminum iMac.

Fixed a bug that precluded use of the FireWire iSight microphone with voice chat.

Symlinks can be used again for Interface and WTF folders and subfolders.

Cinematics playback is working again.

Druids

Talent: Primal Fury (Rank 2) will now be properly unlearned when it is untalented.

Hunters

Aspect of the Viper: This ability now grants an additional amount of mana each 5 seconds equal to 35% of the hunteris level.

Boar Charge: This ability will no longer make Growl cast immediately after it generates excessive threat.

The pet ability Growl will no longer scale with pet Attack Power and now scales with the hunteris Attack Power.

Dire Ravens in Bladeis Edge Mountains are now tameable.

Scare Beast: The range on this spell has been increased to 30 yards.

Tamed Drywallow Snappers now will know Bite 5 (instead of Claw 5).

Mages

Talent: Improved Blink (Arcane) now reduces chance to be hit by 13/25% and the duration of Rank 1 has been increased to 4 seconds.

Completing the questiArcane Refreshmenti will now properly teach the spell Conjure Water (Rank 7).

Polymorph: Mounted creatures will no longer remain mounted while polymorphed.

Molten Armor will now do damage while a damage absorption shield is active.

New Teleport/Portal: Theramore and Teleport/Portal:Stonard spells are available at portal trainers in their respective locations. You must be level 35 to learn these new spells.

Paladins

Flash of Light and Holy Light will now work properly with castsequence macros.

Seal of the Crusader: This ability now increases the damage dealt by Crusader Strike by 40%.

Talent: Precision (Ranks 1-3) will no longer improperly display daggers and staves as a weapon class in the tooltip.

Paladins that already have Apprentice Riding skill can now properly learn Summon Warhorse from the trainer.

Priests

Fear Ward will no longer be consumed while under the effects of cyclone.

Mana Burn: This spell can no longer trigger effects that require the target to be struck with a critical hit.

Power Word: Shield now has the correct sound associated with it and can no longer be heard from large distances.

Talent: Power Infusion will now consume the correct amount of mana when cast on yourself.

Rogues

Ability: Blade Flurry: This ability can no longer hit critters as its secondary targets and will now use a proper range calculation for all secondary targets.

Talent: Mutilate (Assassination) will no longer incorrectly appear multiple times in the combat log when used.

Drain Soul: Channeling of this spell will now always stop when a player target dies.

Pets: Using a sacrifice effect to kill your own pet will no longer trigger effects that should only occur when killing an enemy.

Warrior

Sweeping Strikes: This ability can no longer hit critters as its secondary targets and will now use a proper range calculation for all secondary targets.

PvP

Arenas

If a characteris personal rating is more than 150 points below the team rating, they will earn points based on their personal rating instead of the team rating.

If the average personal rating of the players queuing for a game is more than 150 points below the teamis rating, the team will be queued against an opponent matching or similar to the average personal rating.